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Theatre 5 aired for one year beginning on August 3, 1964. The big-budget ABC radio series had

• 260 episodes of varied genres,
• 64 writers, and
• 255+ actors who played in 1225+ roles.

The series was a production success and a marketing failure. It was heard on about 100 stations when it was originally broadcast. Now, six decades after its premiere, the series can be enjoyed by a much wider audience of classic radio enthusiasts.

Theatre 5, despite being broadcast for only one year, has a very interesting history. It was a remarkable collection of writing, production, and acting talent that can finally be understood in the context of radio history.

This document is 102 pages and is about half history and the other half is a complete log of the series with cast, plotlines, and other interesting information. This is the table of contents:

PAGE SECTION

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Theatre 5 Timetable of Key Events
• 4 The Mind's Eye: ABC declares its intent to bring original drama back to radio
• 7 Theatre 5 Starts Taking Shape: Ed Byron Takes the Helm
• 10 Scripts! Theatre 5 Needs Scripts!
• 13 Theatre 5’s Writers, Experienced and New
• 19 Theatre 5’s Pivotal Players
• 25 Theatre 5's Music: Datz Exactly What We Need!
• 27 The Actors
• 28 Actors and Their Number of Appearances, by Frequency
• 31 Actors and Their Number Appearances, Alphabetical by Last Name
• 33 The Six Theatre 5 Myths, Debunked
• 38 Access the 60th Anniversary Set of Theatre 5 at the Internet Archive in FLAC and mp3 Formats
• 47 The Theatre 5 Log Methodology
• Theatre 5 Log (52 pages)

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